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FRINGILLIN^, SPIZA. 
tarsus much compressed, with seven scutella ; toes of mo- 
derate size, hind toe large, lateral equal. Claws slender, 
compressed, well arched, acute. Plumage full, soft, and 
blended. Wings of moderate length, the second and third 
quills longest, the first about equal to the fourth. Tail of 
moderate length, emarginate. Palate anteriorly with their 
narrow ridges, forming a large oblong hard knob at their 
base ; tongue higher than broad, deeply grooved above, 
pointed ; oesophagus dilated into a crop ; stomach elliptical, 
muscular ; intestine of moderate length ; coeca very small. 
169. 1. Spiza Ciris, Wils. Blue-headed Painted-Bunting. 
— Painted-Bunting. Painted-Finch. 
Plate LIIL Male and Female. 
Male with the head and hind neck ultramarine-blue, eyelids vermi- 
lion ; fore part of back and scapulars yellowish-green ; rump purplish- 
red ; smaller wing-coverts purplish -blue, secondary coverts green ; 
quills and tail-feathers dusky; lower parts bright vermilion. Female 
yellowish-green above, greenish-yellow beneath. Young like the 
female. In the second year, the male with the upper parts olive- 
green, the lower dull orange, paler behind, head as in the adult ; in 
the third year, with the back mottled with yellow and light green, the 
secondary coverts green, the rest as in the adult. 
Male, 5i, 7-2-. 
From Texas to North Carolina, and up the Mississippi to Natchez. 
Abundant. Migratory. 
Painted Bunting, Emberiza Ciris, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. iii. p. 68. 
Fringilla Ciris, Bonap. Syn. p. 107. 
Painted Bunting, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 477. 
Painted Finch, Fringilla Ciris, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. i. p. 279 ; v. v. p. 517. 
170. 2. Spiza cyanea, Wils. Indigo Painted-Bunting. — 
Indigo Bird. 
Plate LXXIV. Male and Female. 
Male blue, tinged with verdigris-green, on the head approaching to 
ultramarine ; quills and tail-feathers dusky, edged with greenish-blue. 
Female yellowish-brown above, paler beneath. Young like th? female. 
Male, in the first autumn, of a lighter and duller blue than in the 
adult, the feathers of the upper parts tipped with brown, of the lower 
with yellowish, in the second year nearly as in the adult, but with 
the smaller coverts dull brown. 
